You have to evaluate if you can experience the friendship not as a consolation prize or a waystation for your ultimate destiny of romantic partnership with them but as a gift that is exactly what you want.
If you’re wondering what some queer people who aren’t me are thinking about when it comes to getting engaged and wedding planning (or not wedding planning), this installment of Blush and Bashful is for you.
You get to talk a bunch, like a dinner date but with an added activity — one almost insists you stare at your partner’s ass.
I’m black and masculine so I’m worried that if I tried to make a move it would come off too strong, which I know I really shouldn’t but we live in a world.
Kink can be a profound space of healing, which is something that Black people — and especially Black women — deeply deserve.
By which I mean I am a lesbian who likes to look at and hold cool rocks — not that I am a lesbian into cool rock ‘n roll, but I’m sure those lesbians are great.
The reason I wanted to write about this experience is explicitly to say to other fat brides that buying a dress does not have to be a negative experience.
In the autumn of 1977, I met the partner of my dreams, and we’ve been sailing through life together ever since.
The fact that you feel affected by what your partner tells you, even when they’re not their best self, is not inappropriate or bad. It’s human.
Sometimes you are going to have to undertake a project during which it will be inevitable that you will scream at each other. My advice is to just kind of pretend it didn’t happen.
The idea that we must save our intimate, intense feelings only for our partners is a deeply heteronormative one, and I don’t want us to adhere to it.
By the time the lockdown lifted, she (Lucy) had kicked a life-long nail biting habit, and I (Summer) had come out as transgender.
“There are so many ways to individualize your ring and make it super unique for your relationship and yourself.”
You’re wondering if you should admit your feelings to her, but you’re not sure if she’s queer or not. Let’s look practically at all the options.
When I learned there are sex toys called ovipositors that allow you to lay “alien eggs” in your host, I had to try one.
Humans can sometimes be unreliable narrators of our own lives.
The history of lesbian weddings on TV: parents refusing to attend, wild ’90s hats, untimely deaths, a weed brownie rave on the Eiffel Tower, an impromptu prison wedding, the union of two solo gems and so much more.
Welcome to Blush & Bashful, a new biweekly column about planning a queer wedding.
I knew they taught about safety in BDSM culture, and I assumed that this ethic would carry through in their COVID safety. I was wrong.
If your girlfriend wrote into this column with this story, I would tell her she should break up with you.